IVP Readers' Choice Award
Rarely does a new theological position emerge to account well for life in the world, including not only goodness and beauty but also tragedy and randomness. Drawing from Scripture, science, philosophy and various theological traditions, Thomas Jay Oord offers a novel theology of providence—essential kenosis—that emphasizes God's inherently noncoercive love in relation to creation. The Uncontrolling Love of God provides a clear and powerful response to one of the perennial challenges to Christian faith.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments
1. Tragedy Needs Explanation
2. The Randomness and Regularities of Life
3. Agency and Freedom in a World of Good and Evil
4. Models of God?s Providence
5. The Open and Relational Alternative
6. Does Love Come First?
7. The Essential-Kenosis Model of Providence
8. Miracles and God?s Providence
Postscript
Index
Despre autor
Thomas Jay Oord (Ph D, Claremont Graduate University) is professor of theology and philosophy at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho. He has written or edited more than a dozen books, including Defining Love: A Philosophical, Scientific, and Theological Engagement. He is an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene.
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